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DVD just quit...Bios sees it but XP doesn't

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bstrom1953

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This is an ASUS M3A78-EMH dual core AMD. The DVD LED is lit but the door won't open so I bought a new SATA LG DVD. The LED lights and the door opens but after putting in a disk and some searching, Windows tells me to put in a disk.

I have checked the SATA cable, moved it around the SATA channels and the BIOS sees it just fine... I reset the BIOS to default settings, no help. Windows actually sees the DVD but won't read the known good disk.

I have tried both the old and new DVD drives on another computer and both are good and read disks fine.

I reloaded XP thinking the OS was at fault...still no good. I'm thinking I have a mobo problem. My last resort is to buy an IDE DVD and forget the SATA.

BTW, the Seagate HDD is a SATA and is working fine, so I don't think there is a SATA failure.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

bstrom1953
 
does the hard drive work fine in all the other channels? maybe you just got unlucky and got another bad DVD
 
ElFenix said:
does the hard drive work fine in all the other channels? maybe you just got unlucky and got another bad DVD
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I tried both the new and old DVD drives in another computer and both work fine. THe hard drive is also SATA and works fine. I moved it around to SATA channels and it still worked.
The computer boots up but will not read the DVD. The DVD was working fine and then one day it just stopped reading the disks.
 
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bstrom1953 said:
I tried both the new and old DVD drives in another computer and both work fine. THe hard drive is also SATA and works fine. I moved it around to SATA channels and it still worked.
The computer boots up but will not read the DVD. The DVD was working fine and then one day it just stopped reading the disks.
Click to expand...

can you try burning a live CD and boot linux off of the dvd? seems strange to me that the mobo would be able to use the hard drives just fine but not the DVDs.

also try removing it in device manager and then have windows find it
 
I removed it and reinstalled it....put in a known good disk...the LED on the DVD flashes a few times slowly...then the instant I double click on the DVDRAM (G: ) it reverts to CD (G: ) and then asks that I insert a disk. Weird.
Thanks for your help.
 
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